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  • Beginner question... Virtual "disks" for PS2200 on Windows

    From Marco Antoniotti@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 20 02:01:42 2020
    Hi

    just a stupid question.

    Background: as a personal project, I embarked on running mainframe OSes on my Windows machine. It may have some didactic purposes later on.

    Here is the question.

    I installed PS2200 and started looking figuring out how it works (also meaning: digging out ancient memories about how to access the old CILEA machine in Milan, Italy). I noticed that the installation comes with two "disks": vd_DR0.bin and vd_SR0.bin.

    What is the tool that can be used on a Windows machine to "create" these "disks"?

    Just to let you know what I am aiming at, in the other guys' emulation world, (the Hercules/IBM world :) ) you have the dasdinit.exe utility. Is there anything similar for OS2200?

    Just curious.

    Thanks

    Cheers
    --
    Marco

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  • From Stephen Fuld@21:1/5 to Marco Antoniotti on Wed Oct 21 08:37:20 2020
    On 10/20/2020 2:01 AM, Marco Antoniotti wrote:
    Hi

    just a stupid question.

    Background: as a personal project, I embarked on running mainframe OSes on my Windows machine. It may have some didactic purposes later on.

    Here is the question.

    I installed PS2200 and started looking figuring out how it works (also meaning: digging out ancient memories about how to access the old CILEA machine in Milan, Italy). I noticed that the installation comes with two "disks": vd_DR0.bin and vd_SR0.bin.

    What is the tool that can be used on a Windows machine to "create" these "disks"?

    Sounds like you are making progress. Congratulations!


    Virtual Disk creation and formatting is accomplished with the DPREP
    command on the SOS console. This is documented in section 2.4 of the
    user reference.


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    - Stephen Fuld
    (e-mail address disguised to prevent spam)

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  • From Marco Antoniotti@21:1/5 to Stephen Fuld on Wed Oct 21 12:12:32 2020
    Thanks Stephen

    Yeah. I figured that out after I ingested a big dose of RTFM :) :) :)

    All the best

    Marco




    On Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 5:37:21 PM UTC+2, Stephen Fuld wrote:
    On 10/20/2020 2:01 AM, Marco Antoniotti wrote:
    Hi

    just a stupid question.

    Background: as a personal project, I embarked on running mainframe OSes on my Windows machine. It may have some didactic purposes later on.

    Here is the question.

    I installed PS2200 and started looking figuring out how it works (also meaning: digging out ancient memories about how to access the old CILEA machine in Milan, Italy). I noticed that the installation comes with two "disks": vd_DR0.bin and vd_SR0.bin.

    What is the tool that can be used on a Windows machine to "create" these "disks"?
    Sounds like you are making progress. Congratulations!


    Virtual Disk creation and formatting is accomplished with the DPREP
    command on the SOS console. This is documented in section 2.4 of the
    user reference.


    --
    - Stephen Fuld
    (e-mail address disguised to prevent spam)

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)